1 hour ago
4
As anyone successful the work manufacture volition archer you, moving with the wide nationalist means you're going to brushwood immoderate existent characters and prime up immoderate unbelievable stories on the way.
Hair stylists successful peculiar person to woody with radical up adjacent and personal, meaning their stories thin to beryllium adjacent wilder than the mean work worker. Recently, s_wipe asked, "Hairdressers of Reddit, what's your weirdest hairsbreadth story?" Along with submissions from this thread and this thread, I was genuinely not acceptable for however wild, funny, and sometimes gross these stories were going to be, but damn, I'm gladsome I work them. Here's what radical had to share:
1. "I erstwhile had a lawsuit request a afloat refund due to the fact that her hubby acceptable her hairsbreadth extensions connected fire. And erstwhile we refused to contented a refund, she took america to court. And lost. I installed Great Lengths extensions connected her, and she was ecstatic. Her hubby loved them too, until helium recovered retired however overmuch they cost. He kept calling us, insisting that it wasn't quality hair, and we kept referring him to the Great Lengths website truthful helium could cheque for himself. Still unconvinced, helium tried to 'test' the hairsbreadth by grabbing a strand and taking a lighter to it, to spot if it would odor similar burning hairsbreadth oregon burning plastic."
2. "In my experience, the weirdest things to hap to maine are erstwhile radical casually notation precise idiosyncratic intersexual fetishes/preferences similar they are talking astir the weather. For instance, I mightiness ask, 'So, did you person a bully weekend?' Their response, 'I guess, but I recovered my hubby utilizing the vacuum accessories for...' I’ll fto y’all conjecture the remainder of that story. Definitely NOT what I was asking her about."
—u/Lfaulker
3. "EVERY waxer I cognize has a communicative of idiosyncratic lying astir being connected retinoids. That crap volition marque your tegument travel disconnected with your hairsbreadth 100% of the time. You volition (rightfully) get refused work for your ain information if you archer them you usage retinoid-based products, but folks are dumb and would alternatively beryllium skinless than hairy."
4. "We unrecorded successful a precise impoverished country successful a tiny town, and everyone knew my hairdresser to beryllium the champion locally. Some greasy pistillate brought her girl successful once, 'just to person a chopped and wash.' My hairdresser said the miss looked similar she hadn’t had her hairsbreadth washed successful a period astatine least. She got her successful the spot and threw a cape astir this mediocre kid, who was truthful excited to person 'pretty hair.' But erstwhile she parted her hairsbreadth successful the middle, she saw thing crawling. Taking a person look, she saw that this small girl’s full scalp was crawling with lice. Like, she couldn't spot her tegument done the bugs."
5. "One of my clients was flipping done the photos connected his telephone to amusement maine a haircut helium liked (as they do), and I ended up seeing pics of his girlfriend’s full bush. Like BAM!! Right determination successful my eyes. He panicked and started flipping faster, truthful I besides got an eyeful of her (beautiful) rack. It was hilarious, and of course, I teased him large time. I told him I didn’t bash perms."
6. "I didn't spell to a hairdresser, but I should have. I fto my ma chopped my hairsbreadth astatine home, and she fundamentally chopped my receptor off. *SNIP* a tiny portion of receptor landed nether the sink."
"I besides got the bottommost portion of my receptor clipped by my ma erstwhile I was young. Both ears look wholly normal, but you cognize however immoderate radical person attached ears, and immoderate don't? Well, I person both."
7. "I don't chopped quality hair, but I'm a favored groomer. We spot each kinds of sh— (literally). The grossest 1 was a canine that had a drawstring coming retired of its butthole. Turns out, he'd swallowed a tampon."
8. "I'm inactive caller to the field, but this was my grossest 1 successful schoolhouse truthful far. A feline came successful for a haircut and had layers and layers of lipid and dormant tegument successful varying states of crustiness built up. On apical of being a precise oily dude, helium revealed that helium lone washes his hairsbreadth erstwhile a week and uses Pantene, which leaves a ace waxy buildup behind. His tegument and lipid got impacted into my clippers, and immoderate didn't transportation was inactive truthful built up that adjacent 2 washes with beverage histrion shampoo didn't get it disconnected his head. He besides had hairsbreadth increasing from 3 antithetic spots connected his ears, including the top, that helium allowed to turn chaotic and free. The hairs were astir 4 inches long, conscionable increasing consecutive retired similar Gandalf's eyebrows. It took maine 2 hours to cleanable my trimmers decently afterward!
9. "I've been a hairstylist for implicit a decade. My salon was successful a luxury high-rise/hotel mostly afloat of one-percenters who had 1 ft successful the grave. I ever person agelong stiletto nails due to the fact that they marque sectioning hairsbreadth easier, and those who've had agelong nails cognize worldly likes to get stuck nether them similar a small shovel. Anyway, 1 of the residents brought her precise old, precise saccharine parent successful for a blowout. As I was washing her hair, I went to scrub down her ears and...squish. I freeze. I pulled my hands retired of her hair, cautious to debar the girl who's hovering implicit me, and saw that my scale and mediate digit nails were caked with what I tin lone picture arsenic ricotta food gunk. I excused myself to 'put connected gloves truthful my nails don't scratch her!' I rapidly did a once-over with crockery soap and scalding h2o and headed back. I felt atrocious complaining due to the fact that the pistillate was precise sweet, but that 1 was the implicit worst."
10. "I arrived on-site to bash wedding hairsbreadth and makeup, and everyone was tipsy by 9:00 a.m. Mimosas each around! I got done the bridal party, and the bride was astir to beryllium down for her constitution erstwhile her ma came up, and they started talking and joking around. Now, this is her mother, retrieve that. So I asked the bride however she was doing and whether she was tense oregon excited — the usual. She was truly excited and a small drunk. As I was applying her makeup, I asked astir the honeymoon. She laughed and yelled astatine her ma to travel listen, truthful the 3 of america were huddled around. I had a constitution brushwood successful my hand, and she started laughing, saying that the honeymoon is ✨the✨ night. Her ma looked confused and said, 'Honey, you’ve already had enactment with him. And she yelled, 'NO MOM, I’m going to fto him instrumentality it successful my butt tonight!'"
11. "I worked successful a salon benignant of adjacent to LSU. Lots of assemblage kids came in, and I was amazed by however galore of them were pulling their hairsbreadth retired portion studying. Like, however immoderate would wound their nails, they dilatory pulled retired the hairsbreadth astatine the backmost of their heads, adjacent to their necks instead."
—u/lrichard225
12. "It's ever comic erstwhile a lawsuit comes successful with her man, and they are each kissy and lovey, but arsenic soon arsenic helium leaves, she's all, 'Anyways!!' and proceeds to speech sh— connected him for hours."
13. "I erstwhile had a pistillate whom I'd ne'er met earlier successful my chair, and truthful nonchalantly told maine that her member had stabbed their ma to decease successful the mediate of the street, and past was killed by the constabulary erstwhile they arrived. I looked it up, and it was everywhere, but someway I hadn’t seen it successful the news. It had lone happened a fewer months prior, and for the archetypal clip successful astir apt my full life, I had nary hint what to say. 'I’m truthful sorry' felt right, but not enough. She ended up being casual to speech to, and she changed subjects earlier I adjacent afloat processed what she had told me."
—u/nuggettime69
14. "In cosmetology school, I was cutting an older gentleman’s hair; helium conscionable wanted a clipper cut, 1 magnitude each over. He was a spot of a grump, but polite enough, and wanted an casual cut, truthful I wasn’t complaining. He had fto his hairsbreadth get reasonably agelong and was getting it chopped beauteous short. Just earlier I finished up, helium goes, 'That’s fine,' gets up, and takes disconnected his cape to spell beryllium and hold for his wife, who was besides getting her hairsbreadth cut. He inactive had 1 agelong hairsbreadth close successful the beforehand of his hairline, hanging successful his face, but I knew determination was nary mode helium was getting backmost successful my chair. All I could bash was laughter astir it and anticipation his woman saw it and chopped it for him erstwhile they got home!"
15. "I had a marque caller lawsuit erstwhile archer maine however her hubby mislaid his dental licence due to the fact that helium was smoking meth earlier moving connected patients. 😭"
16. "Very aboriginal connected successful my career, I worked arsenic the lone stylist successful a concatenation salon. The circumstantial store I worked astatine had a 'you whitethorn not diminution services' regularisation that the store manager upheld strictly. One day, I had a lawsuit publication highlights, but it ended up being a colour correction. My archetypal reddish emblem was her telling maine precisely however to bash the service, including bringing her ain homemade shampoo and conditioner, and past going done my presumption to archer maine however to usage my ain tools. What ended up making the assignment truthful memorable was erstwhile she pulled retired an pome and a steak weapon from Outback Steakhouse astir halfway done the assignment and proceeded to whittle it successful a mode that lone an experienced weapon handler would whittle something."
"She past pointed the weapon close astatine maine and told maine that if she didn’t similar her hair, I would extremity up conscionable similar the pome she was eating. I told management, and they inactive made maine decorativeness the work AND publication her different assignment for maintenance. She would amusement up and conscionable look from clip to time. Management did nothing."
—u/3boxes
17. "I had idiosyncratic reschedule their colour due to the fact that she was extracurricular smoking a cigaret earlier bed, and a bat dive bombed her, got caught successful her hair, and scratched her. She had to get rabies shots and rescheduled owed to the unfastened caput wound. Absolutely wild. And present I fearfulness bats, lol."
18. "The astir disgusting lawsuit I ever had was successful quality school. You cognize those small flakes astir radical get that we telephone dandruff? That’s not existent dandruff. Her scalp someway smelled from said dandruff. I had to spell done THREE combs due to the fact that they filled truthful rapidly with tegument flakes. She had precise fine, shorter hair, truthful it was each flakes and small hair. But worse than immoderate of that, she was truthful effing rude."
19. "My salon proprietor dated a antheral who was an underwear exemplary and...a fugitive. The FBI came into my salon erstwhile lone my lawsuit and I were there. I gave them each the info I had and continued to substance with an FBI cause for a while. She was lone with him for a mates of weeks earlier she started letting him instrumentality implicit the salon. Things got weird 1 day, she was truly paranoid, and hiding successful a backmost room. I Googled his sanction that night, and erstwhile I confronted her astir what I found, she said, 'You don't cognize the full story; spell enactment determination other if you don't privation him around.' The FBI ended up uncovering him successful Ohio, and the cause sent maine a thank-you substance for each my help."
20. "When I was a inferior stylist, I was giving a pistillate a stroke wave, and she told maine however her hairsbreadth was getting excessively long, and she needed to publication a chopped due to the fact that 'my cats similar to suck connected my earlobes and they don’t similar it erstwhile hairsbreadth gets successful the way.'"
21. "I was a manager astatine a concatenation salon during COVID. We had a disguise requirement, and for the astir part, radical were beauteous understanding, adjacent if they huffed astir it. I was successful the bureau doing immoderate the hellhole I did connected a dilatory day, and this antheral pulled up successful his lifted-to-God motortruck and strutted into the salon without a mask. My coworker greeted him and precise politely asked if helium had a disguise helium could enactment connected for us. The man started a TIRADE. On and on, 'I’m not wearing nary f—in' mask. I can’t respire successful that sh—, you expect maine to beryllium done a full haircut being choked?' Blah blah blah. By that point, I was already halfway to the desk. I backed my coworker up and told Mr. Truck that unless helium had a mask, we could not assistance him. He gave a large ol' huff and stormed retired the door. We thought we were done dealing with him, but of people not."
22. "I've been a cosmetologist for years, and a person of excavation had a raver getting her constitution done for the 2nd nighttime of a festival. The miss projectile vomited repeatedly successful the mediate of her work and past demanded that my person inactive decorativeness the job. When my person refused, she had her sweetener daddy telephone and endanger the receptionist. He had an relationship with the edifice we worked astatine and fto 'his girls' walk thousands a period connected amenities, and IIRC they were each banned from coming backmost aft this."
23. "When I was successful hairsbreadth school, we had this lawsuit we each referred to arsenic 'Big Ange.' She wasn't really big; it was conscionable similar a codification name. She was obsessed with looking similar Angelina Jolie. She would ever bring pictures of Angelina successful for her consultations. They were usually low-quality, black-and-white pictures she recovered connected Google and printed retired astatine home. She would bring these pictures successful and request that her colour travel retired conscionable similar the picture. We would explicate to her implicit and implicit that the pictures were not bully for a consultation and effort to get her to look astatine swatches oregon pictures connected her phone. It didn't substance who did her hair; she ever hated it and would telephone aboriginal to bully whoever was moving the phones into giving her a refund oregon escaped service. She yet got banned aft she tried to premix up her ain container colour astatine our colour barroom and called maine and respective different radical immoderate truly unspeakable names."
24. And finally, "This happened virtually 2 weeks agone erstwhile I got my hairsbreadth cut. I showed up a small early, and my hairstylist told maine she was finishing up coloring an older woman’s hairsbreadth and she'd beryllium with maine soon. When she yet got to me, the older pistillate was sitting nether the hairsbreadth dryer, and my stylist leaned implicit the seat and whispered, 'That woman’s been watching porn this full clip and showing maine everything she’s been searching.' I astir didn't judge her until I saw the pistillate looking astatine it too, due to the fact that she decided to stock it with maine arsenic well. The worst portion was what she was looking at! Definitely can’t unsee that. My stylist and I had a large laughter astir it erstwhile the woman left, and we processed what had really happened!"
—u/ASL_everyday
Do you person immoderate chaotic salon stories? Tell maine your tales successful the comments, oregon usage the anonymous signifier below. Your effect could beryllium featured successful an upcoming BuzzFeed article!
Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
English (US) ·